Cloud complexity didn't happen by accident

Cloud computing should make businesses more focused on their business, not more focused on their cloud.

That distinction has gotten lost.

A company that has moved its operations to the public cloud and then deployed significant engineering capacity to manage that environment has not simplified anything.

It has traded one operational cost for another.

Around 2012, moving to public cloud was genuinely good advice. It meant elastic scale on demand, no capital expenditure, and you only paid for what you used.

For most workloads, it was a meaningful step forward and the migration wave that followed made complete sense.

Things have changed.

The 2026 Flexera State of the Cloud report puts the current picture plainly: 73% of organizations say cloud has increased their operational complexity. And 31% of cloud spend, according to Finout, is being wasted.

There is a gulf between the promise of the public cloud and the reality,...

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